Friday, December 07, 2007

Where's The Bear?

In all the hoo-ha surrounding Gillian Gibbons naming the class Teddy "Muhammad" recently, noone seems to have asked how the bear is handling the sudden media intrusion, or indeed what has happened to it. Has anyone actually seen the bear in all of this? Not once was his plight televised by the media here in the UK, who were only interested in getting that woman back where she belongs (which, frankly, would appear to be Primark).

Is Muhammad still in the classroom, being looked after by the kids and the new teacher? Has he changed his name to avoid further trouble and to distance himself from further media speculation? Has he managed to flee from the Sudan? Or is he just laying discarded somewhere, lost and forlorn? I just pray that it hasn't been stoned to death or something.


As so often happens in these situations it's the little people that get forgotten. Or, in this case, the little bears. We should not give up the fight for this bear, just because that teacher is back in the UK.

Also, someone really needs to tell Gillian Gibbons to do something with her hair before she instigates another international incident.

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